Shocking Details On the Binance Hack: Fake Job Interviews and Months of Access
A fake job interview helped hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance. The attackers spent months infiltrating the exchange, using tactics that other cryptocurrency companies had warned about long before the breach. On November 3, Binance revealed that the October 29 attack began with two engineers whose computers were compromised separately. The first incident happened in The post Shocking Details On the Binance Hack: Fake Job Interviews and Months of Access appeared first on BeInCrypto.
Key Takeaways
- A fake job interview helped hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance.
- The attackers spent months infiltrating the exchange, using tactics that other cryptocurrency companies had warned about long before the breach.
- On November 3, Binance revealed that the October 29 attack began with two engineers whose computers were compromised separately.
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